#music (617 links)
With version 1 of the API you can query artists’ discographies and get the information you need to write a custom embedded audio player, with metadata such as track credits and lyrics.
- Spotify - the next generation - Spotify spotify.com
New Spotify with a number of interesting new features.
- The Cynical Musician » What the “new music experts” don’t tell you. thecynicalmusician.com
- How Much Do Music Artists Earn Online? | Information Is Beautiful informationisbeautiful.net
How Much Do Music Artists Earn Online?
- Bandcamp for Drummers | Bandcamp bandcamp.com
"There's a little-watched video on Maroon Five's YouTube channel which documents the torturous, tedious process of crafting an instantly forgettable mainstream radio hit. It's fourteen minutes of elegantly dishevelled chaps sitting in leather sofas, playing $15,000 vintage guitars next to $200,000 studio consoles, staring at notepads and endlessly discussing how little they like the track (called Makes Me Wonder), and how it doesn't have a chorus. Even edited down, the tedium is mind-boggling as they play the same lame riff over and over and over again. At one point, singer Adam Levine says: "I'm sick of trying to engineer songs to be hits." But that's exactly he proceeds to do."
In mid-December 2009 I set out to ask a few of my favorite record labels (including Ad Noiseam, Herb, Hidden Shoal, Highpoint Lowlife and n5MD) some general questions about their operation and uncovered responses that exceeded expectations. Find out some of the inner-workings of these imprints, how they view demo's, release material and relate to their roster of musical and visual talent.
- C O D E O R G A N codeorgan.com
- The Loudness War Analyzed « Music Machinery musicmachinery.com
I’m interested in looking at the loudness for the recordings of a number of artists to see how wide-spread this loudness war really is. To do this I used the Echo Nest remix API and a bit of Python to collect and plot loudness for a set of recordings. I did two experiments. First I looked at the loudness for music by some of my favorite or well known artists. Then I looked at loudness over a large collection of music.
Use this application to look at tempo plots for any song to see which bands have a machine controlling the heartbeat of the band. Type in the name of an artist and/or track and get a click plot of the track. If a machine is setting the beat for the song, the click plot will show only small deviations from the average tempo. A flat line means a machine is setting the beat.
Lots of rather exciting music analysis APIs.
Create your own site with music from SoundCloud, gigs from Songkick or Last.fm, news/posts from Tumblr.
"Authoring your first song requires a deep skill set and 60-80 hours of focused effort." Oh. Well. In that case, maybe not.
- Create Digital Music » Your Band in Rock Band: Rock Band Network Beta Opens, Q&A with Harmonix createdigitalmusic.com
Via chrisdodo.
- BBC News - Video games recognised by Ivor Novello awards news.bbc.co.uk
Writing music for games also requires a number of specialist skills compared with conventional film scoring, such as non-linear and multi-layered composition.
- Turn Me Up! | Bringing Dynamics Back To Music turnmeup.org
A non-profit music industry organization campaigning to give artists back the choice to release more dynamic records.
- Westbury Music westburymusic.net
An independent publisher of contemporary British music.
Spotify playlist of Ghostly's 110 albums of the decade. If Warp were on Spotify this would be even better (can't blame them for not being, though).
- LJ’s albums of the decade - LJ Kruzer ljkruzer.co.uk
Open Knowledge Foundation spoke with Robert about the history of the MusicBrainz project, about the role of community, about the way open licensing helps MusicBrainz work, and about the future he sees for music meta data.
Unofficial thesixtyone forum.
- DELTA 9 « Site relaunch: The tech stuff delta-9.net
A good/useful moan about Wordpress. Plus, Delta 9 is back. Yay!
- Physical & Digital, Together at Last! « Bandcamp Blog blog.bandcamp.com
This makes me so happy. Bandcamp rock.
- Do music artists fare better in a world with illegal file-sharing? — Times Labs Blog labs.timesonline.co.uk · Archived on
- Remixing Via iPhone: 5 Tools for the Pocket DJ - ReadWriteStart readwriteweb.com
- Julie's Bicycle juliesbicycle.com
A not-for-profit company helping the music industry cut its greenhouse gas emissions and create a low carbon creative future.
- Independent musicians set for windfall after YouTube deal | Business | guardian.co.uk guardian.co.uk
The PIAS Entertainment Group, which represents 200 independent labels, has signed a global licensing and marketing deal with the online video giant that will mean artists and their record companies get a share of revenues from adverts shown alongside their works. The deal covers both official audio and video releases as well as user-generated content.
A workshop and performance. It involves people from all walks of life making electronic sounds with one another, out in the world and in the open air.
- Aleatoric music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org
Aleatoric music (also aleatory music or chance music; from the Latin word alea, meaning "dice") is music in which some element of the composition is left to chance, and/or some primary element of a composed work's realization is left to the determination of its performer(s). The term is most often associated with procedures in which the chance element involves a relatively limited number of possibilities."
"In 1996 Brian Eno released the title "Generative Music 1" with SSEYO Koan Software. In so doing he popularised the term "generative music", describing music that is ever-different & changing, created by a system."
- Generative Music - Brian Eno - In Motion Magazine inmotionmagazine.com
A talk delivered in San Francisco, June 8, 1996
- BENGE: Twenty Systems (Expanding Records) | themilkfactory themilkfactory.co.uk
With Twenty Systems, Edwards creates twenty tracks, one for each of the years between 1968 and 1987, and each built using just one synthesizer. The list of makes, Moog, ARP, Roland, Serge, Korg, Yamaha, Oberheim, and models used is likely to send shivers down the spines of many aficionados, and the accompanying liner notes provide much needed information on each machine.
- :: DiscRevolt :: discrevolt.com
Provides digital distribution for artists, labels and organizations through custom download cards and personalized web platforms.
- FizzKicks™ - Create Your Own Music Download Cards and Sell Songs, Videos & Albums Online. fizzkicks.com
Downloady music card thingummies. Still haven't found a way of getting them into the shrinkwrap without tremendous expense.
- Make: Online : How-to: Hacking RjDj with PD blog.makezine.com
The British Library launches new traditional and world music collections online at http://sounds.bl.uk. Featuring unique field recordings, live performances and out-of-print commercial releases, this latest addition to the JISC-funded Archival Sound Recordings website provides a sample of musical traditions across the globe - offering a glimpse of cultural experience around the world.
Via russelldavies.